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Restic seems nice but I don’t have any experience with it so don’t have much to say. Someone else with some experience with Restic might come along though and contribute. :)

That is definitely true. And it is also true that YouTubers and other tech news outlets have been promising that new battery tech will make EVs work just like gas cars and you won’t have to suffer any inconvenience or trade offs. Just wait a few years and all the problems will go away. Or maybe it will be hydrogen again this year.

Meanwhile progress is a slow grind that gets better incrementally every year. Real step changes are pretty rare. But not according to headlines.

I’m happy with the progress and cheer for more. But am going to continue to be skeptical of the “game changers” until they show up in the market and prove themselves out.

I think of it as pablum used to keep people complacent with the status quo. Don’t change, a fix is right around the corner a few years away. Same idea just a different way to say it.

Stories like this crop up around plastics, carbon capture (like @oeuf@slrpnk.net said), and batteries. How many stories have you seen about batteries with the term “game changer” in it?

Not making a case for nihilism or apathy. Just healthy skepticism and make the changes you can in the meantime, like reducing single use plastics where you can.

In addition to the recommendations you're getting already, I recommend learning about Borg Backup. It has great documentation.

https://www.borgbackup.org/

Borgmatic is a project that makes automatic backups easier with Borg.

https://torsion.org/borgmatic/

If you want a GUI for your personal machines there is Vorta.

https://vorta.borgbase.com/

I've used Borg for years now and test my restores every year. Which reminds me… I should do that more often. 😅

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology 🙂

Bookshop.org also has a DRM-free search filter and shares profits with local bookstores.

Not yet. 🙂

I’ve seen semantic commits done with emojis which is cute but also annoying, because they’re not as easy to type or grep for.

Semantic commits can be nice, but they can also invite bikeshedding about what’s a “feature” and what’s a “bug fix”, etc.

Not saying they aren’t nice, and if folks are using them and liking them, keep going. But if you haven’t used them before on a team, then just be aware that’s a thing than can happen.

Love it.

While folks are thinking about git commit messages I will offer this.

https://cbea.ms/git-commit/

My only criticism of the essay is that the most important bit is listed at number 7.

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/114626836191477766

If we can copy/paste an image, surely we can also do so for a source link.

Ward Cunningham has written a federated wiki.

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/wiki-inventor/

https://github.com/fedwiki

http://fed.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors

I recently learned to use my microwave’s “Reheat” feature and have been getting pretty good results. (I have not tested on bricks of frozen lasagna, though.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss